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The strategic importance of Greenland is growing. But President Trump, intent on ownership, is rebuffing deals with Europe to solve the problem.

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Faced with the threat of steep tariffs over Greenland, European leaders began to coalesce around a strategy without ruling out retaliatory taxes.

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Harrowing accounts were emerging after two high-speed trains collided in southern Spain, the country’s deadliest train crash since at least 2013.

 

Policymakers failed to slow a demographic crisis as the country’s birth rate fell to the lowest level since the founding of the People’s Republic of China.

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Falling apartment prices have erased the savings of millions of Chinese households, but exports lifted the economy to 5 percent growth last year.

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Legal and criminal justice experts said a ruling by a federal judge last week revealed conduct by immigration agents that evokes the civil rights era.

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Early last year, agents arrested immigrants in Kern County using the same playbook later seen across the U.S. Then a federal judge ordered them to stop.

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As a candidate, President Trump pledged to boost the stock market, bring back manufacturing jobs and improve other parts of the economy. His record is mixed.

Generations of Times journalists have journeyed to Antarctica with scientists, tracing humankind’s changing relationship with the most mysterious continent.

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With control of the House set to be decided by a small fraction of the chamber’s seats, strategic redistricting and retirements will play a major role.

Syria, in Ruins A year after the dictator fell, Syrians are returning to a country with no clear plan for rebuilding.

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The traditional rhetoric of the World Economic Forum centered on global integration, climate change and international cooperation. Not anymore.

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More than 1 percent of New Zealand’s population left over the course of a year, with many chasing salaries and opportunities in neighboring Australia.

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Since 1986, a federal holiday on the third Monday of January has celebrated the legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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A segment about Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration had been pulled at the last minute by CBS News’s editor in chief, Bari Weiss.

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A federal labor regulator says the firm, Snohetta, laid off eight employees in retaliation for trying to unionize.

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The 30-year-old albino resident of the California Academy of Sciences died last month. On Sunday, thousands paid tribute.

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